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Looking For Lenin

A mural depicting iconic communists Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin on the wall of a bomb repair facility in an abandoned ex-Soviet military base near Nagyvazsony, Hungary. Darko Vojinovic / AP
A modern depiction of Vladimir Lenin titled The Hydra displayed in Bucharest, Romania. It stands in the same place as the original Lenin statue that stood throughout the country’s communist era. Vadim Ghirda / AP
A visitor stands in front of a model Lenin monument created by artists Vladimir Gelfrejch and Lew Iljin during the press preview of the exhibition 'Revolutionary! Russian Avant-Garde’ from the collection of Vladimir Tsarenkov in the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, eastern Germany. Jens Meyer / AP
Customers stand by a sugarcane juice seller beside a plaque of Vladimir Lenin on a road during a nationwide strike in Calcutta, India. Workers affiliated with different trade unions went on a day-long strike across India to protest against price rises and other labor related issues, which disrupted normal life in West Bengal and Kerala, in 2010. Bikas Das / AP
Elderly Vietnamese women do their morning exercises under a giant statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the center of Hanoi, Vietnam. Richard Vogel / AP
A spectator climbs on the back of a statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin statue to get a view of the Fremont Summer Solstice Parade in Seattle. Ralph Radford / AP
Ines Garcia and Miladis Hernandez clean the area of a statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin on a Square in Havana, Cuba. AP Photo

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. To mark the occasion, The Moscow Times gives you renderings of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin as he is depicted throughout the world.

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